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== Location == | == Location == | ||
Near Bouth, England. | Near Bouth, England. | ||
Revision as of 17:50, 19 August 2012
2012-08-19 54 -3
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Location
Participants
Plans
Expedition
Tracklog
Photos
Achievements
Location
Near Bouth, England.
Particpants
Plans
Bag a mountain bike ride in the early part of the day, visit the meet-up point on the way back home to Barrow-in-Furness. The meet-up point was very close to a narrow road, with a reasonable parking place opposite Bouth village hall.
Expedition
While I was a little bit excited on my first geo-hash, the mechanics were a bit dull.
At home, at the beginning of the day, I had checked the location of the geohash point, and sussed out that I could park within about 50 metres of it.
I put my Android phone in the 99pence dashboard holder, started the Geohash Droid app, and drove to the parking place I had chosen earlier.
The weather was drizzling with intermittent breaks of sun. Not enough to qualify for the drowned rat award. Before leaving the car, I took the precaution of putting my phone in a waterproof bag.
I went through the outer gate of the village hall, and scaled the fence behind it. Finding myself in a forest, I picked my way up a small hill while trying to keep my phone held upwards so the GPS receiver had a decent view of the sky. After a small amount of wandering around in decreasing circles, and watching the apparent GPS location wander about, I was able to get a stable reading of 1.53metres away from the official geohash.
Close enough, I shot two photos and left.
The geo-hash seemed to be on the border of a small forest, and someone's back garden. There was never any danger of it turning in to a No Tresspassing Geohash, as there seemed to be nobody about.
Tracklog
There's no tracklog. I have a photo of my phone, with the Geohash app showing my location and the proximity to the geohash location.
Photos
Auto photo at the location
Android Geohash app showing my location
Achievements
Only the one:
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Alexandersmith earned the Land geohash achievement
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